Former Google boss quietly fuels Ukrainian drone swarm that’s rewriting missile economics and terrifying modern air defense planners
A $5,000 Hornet gives Ukraine long-range striking power at minimal cost. Swarms of cheap drones are changing defense economics and overwhelming expensive interceptors. Schmidt applied software-era scaling to hardware, enabling rapid, disposable production of drones. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has quietly become the critical link between Silicon Valley thinking and Ukraine’s deadliest unmanned strike […]










